March 6, 1926.
My dear Mrs. Stewart:
I have watched with considerable interest the growth of the movement to eradicate illiteracy, and am glad to learn that it has recently crystallized in the organization of the National Illiteracy Crusade, which has for its purpose the wiping out of illiteracy by 1930.
The eradication of illiteracy is a national responsibility, and at the same time is a community privilege. When it can be said that every community is a literate community, the United States will have become a literate Nation.
Your organization, and others that may cooperate in the movement, will be useful, I trust, in stimulating in every community a desire to show a record of complete literacy in 1930, and in bringing the United States to rank first in this respect among nations.
Very truly yours,
Calvin Coolidge [signed]
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